A soft, sweet-fruity ester with a pronounced green apple character and a subtle waxy, slightly cognac-like nuance. Fairly diffusive on top but quickly settles into a gentle fruity roundness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 373.
Colorless mobile liquid.
Slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Pleasant, light, ethereal odor of good diffusive action and poor tenacity.
This ester is occasionally used in perfumery as part of light topnote compositions. It may introduce a mellowness resembling that of good, well-aged alcohol, an odor type suitable for fragrances intended for use as colognes or diluted perfume lotions. It performs well with the Citrus oils, Neroli, with green topnotes and winey or winey-floral topnotes. It has also useful effect on tinctures, e.g. Ambregris tincture and Civet tincture.
1) by condensing Ethylpropionate with Diethyloxalate, followed by heating of the reaction product. 2) from Diethylmalonate plus Sodium and Methyl iodide.